Why Vanced Manager is not working
- The download servers were taken offline in March 2022 when the project ended. Manager has nothing to fetch and no way to check for updates.
- The app itself has had no maintenance since then, so it does not handle the failure gracefully. Depending on your Android version it hangs, shows an endless spinner, or reports a network error.
- The final YouTube Vanced release, 17.03.38, is the last one that ever existed. There is no newer build waiting behind a fixed connection.
- Nothing you can change locally alters any of this. Clearing data, reinstalling, changing DNS and switching networks all fail the same way, because the endpoint is gone rather than blocked.
Migrate to ReVanced Manager
- Uninstall Vanced Manager and any leftover Vanced MicroG. They serve no purpose now and old MicroG builds interfere with newer setups.
- Download ReVanced Manager from the official ReVanced GitHub organization. Avoid anything calling itself a Vanced Manager update, since those are repackages by unrelated people.
- Install GmsCore before the patched app if you want to sign into a Google account. It handles the sign-in that Vanced MicroG used to.
- Open ReVanced Manager, read the recommended base version on the patch screen, and let it download that version of YouTube.
- Patch with the default selection and install the result. Non-root installs replace the official YouTube app, so uninstall stock YouTube first if the install is refused.
- Check playback and sign-in before adding optional patches, so you know which change caused a problem if one appears.
If none of this worked
- Be clear about what cannot be fixed. Vanced Manager will not work again. There is no repair, no mirror, no offline mode and no community rebuild of the original service.
- APKs advertised as a working or updated Vanced Manager are not from Team Vanced. Some are harmless copies of the old build that fail the same way; others are not, and there is no way to tell from a download page.
- If you still have YouTube Vanced installed and working, keep the APK file somewhere safe. Once it is uninstalled you cannot get an authentic copy back through Manager.
- If signing in is what you lost, that is unlikely to come back either. Vanced MicroG has not been maintained since 2022 and its login fails for most people now. The MicroG login guide covers the detail.
Questions people ask
- Can I still install YouTube Vanced without Manager? Only from an APK you already have or an archive you trust. Manager was the official route and it is gone.
- Is ReVanced Manager made by the same people? No. It is a separate project that took over after Vanced ended, and it works differently: you patch the app yourself instead of downloading a prebuilt one.
- Does ReVanced Manager need root? No. The non-root route is standard and works on an unmodified phone.
- Will my Vanced settings carry over? No. ReVanced is a different app built from a current YouTube base, so you set it up from scratch.
Vanced Manager was retired along with YouTube Vanced in March 2022. Because the app depended on Vanced's servers for every download and every update check, it stopped being useful the day they went offline. No settings change or reinstall brings them back, and treating this as a bug to troubleshoot only costs you time.
The working replacement is ReVanced Manager, which does the same job through a different model. Instead of handing you a prebuilt app, it patches YouTube on your own device, which is why it survives changes that killed the old download model. If you would rather not patch anything at all, the alternatives page covers separate clients such as NewPipe and LibreTube.
For context on what happened and when, the Vanced history page covers the shutdown, and the status page tracks what is still true today.
Extra notes before you retry
If the problem comes back after a fix, note your YouTube base version, your ReVanced Manager build, and whether GmsCore is installed before trying anything else. A version mismatch between those is behind most repeat failures.